TrueCrypt replacement recommendation?

[servodude]

Prompted by Dod's recent post I remembered I had been looking for something like TrueCrypt recently

I have a live copy of it on an ancient thumb drive that's guarding enough identifying material to digitally clone me

But I would rather rely on a bit of software that's not discontinued
-anyone got any recommendations for a similarly featured on the fly encryption programme?

Ta
-sd

[ursaminortaur]

Prompted by Dod's recent post I remembered I had been looking for something like TrueCrypt recently

I have a live copy of it on an ancient thumb drive that's guarding enough identifying material to digitally clone me

But I would rather rely on a bit of software that's not discontinued
-anyone got any recommendations for a similarly featured on the fly encryption programme?

Ta
-sd

You might want to look at

https://privacysavvy.com/security/safe-browsing/truecrypt-alternatives/

VeraCrypt probably has the best pedigree as it forked off TrueCrypt about a year before the demise of that product because the VeraCrypt authors wanted to change the storage format as they considered that used by TrueCrypt was too vulnerable to an NSA attacxk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeraCrypt

The VeraCrypt development team considered the TrueCrypt storage format too vulnerable to a National Security Agency (NSA) attack, so it created a new format incompatible with that of TrueCrypt. This is one of the main differences between VeraCrypt and its competitor CipherShed, which continues to use the TrueCrypt format. VeraCrypt is still capable of opening and converting volumes in the TrueCrypt format.

https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Beginner%27s%20Tutorial.html

[servodude]

Prompted by Dod's recent post I remembered I had been looking for something like TrueCrypt recently

I have a live copy of it on an ancient thumb drive that's guarding enough identifying material to digitally clone me

But I would rather rely on a bit of software that's not discontinued
-anyone got any recommendations for a similarly featured on the fly encryption programme?

Ta
-sd

You might want to look at

https://privacysavvy.com/security/safe-browsing/truecrypt-alternatives/

VeraCrypt probably has the best pedigree as it forked off TrueCrypt about a year before the demise of that product because the VeraCrypt authors wanted to change the storage format as they considered that used by TrueCrypt was too vulnerable to an NSA attacxk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeraCrypt

The VeraCrypt development team considered the TrueCrypt storage format too vulnerable to a National Security Agency (NSA) attack, so it created a new format incompatible with that of TrueCrypt. This is one of the main differences between VeraCrypt and its competitor CipherShed, which continues to use the TrueCrypt format. VeraCrypt is still capable of opening and converting volumes in the TrueCrypt format.

https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Beginner%27s%20Tutorial.html

Thanks I'll give VeraCrypt a punt
-sd

[xeny]

I've replaced TrueCrypt with VeraCrypt with no problems FWIW.

[Stompa]

I've replaced TrueCrypt with VeraCrypt with no problems FWIW.

I've now done so too. When I tried it a year or two ago I found the time taken to mount a volume was annoyingly long at around 30 seconds (compared to TrueCrypt which was pretty much instantaneous). However, having converted to SSD it's now a more reasonable 7 seconds.